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Sunday, 26 March 2017

McCain renews call for neocon status quo

McCain:
"The New World Order Is Under Enormous Strain"

It
was a bumper day for John McCain when on Friday Donald Trump's
Republican nemesis gloated as Trump's "art of the deal"
collapsed in the last minute, after the President and Ryan-led effort
to repeal Obamacare suffered what appears to be a terminal setback.
In the wake of Trump's misfortune, McCain renewed his calls on Friday
for a return to a legacy neocon status quo, when speaking at the
Brussels forum, said that the world "cries
out for American and European leadership"
through the EU and Nato, and said that the EU and the US needed to
develop "more cooperation, more connectivity".

In
a "new
world order under enormous strain" and
in "the
titanic struggle with forces of radicalism … we can't stand by and
lament, we've got to be involved,"
said McCain who is now chairman of the armed services committee in
the US Senate, quoted
by the EU Observer.
"I trust the EU," he said,

defending
an opposite view from that of US president Donald Trump, who
said in January that the UK "was so smart in getting out"
of the EU and that Nato was "obsolete". He said that the EU
was "one of the most important alliances" for the US and
that the EU and Nato were "the best two sums in history",
which have maintained peace for the last 70 years.

Further
attacking Trump's global worldview, McCan said that "we need to
rely on Nato and have a Nato that adjusts to new challenges." He
noted that "the EU has too many bureaucrats, not much
bureaucracy," but added that "it's not the only place on
earth with that problem." He said that he was "still
wondering what the overall effect of Brexit will be" and that he
did not know "if this is the beginning of a serious problem for
the EU". McCain did not disagree, however, with Trump's demand
that European countries increase their defense spending for Nato.

McCain
also revealed he hasn’t met the President Donald Trump in person
since he took office, and he urged Trump to reach out to his
opponents—Democratic and otherwise—ala Ronald Reagan if he wants
to repeal Obamacare. “Do some outreach. Get to know some of these
Democratic leaders,” he said. “You can find common ground.”
McCain said he’d met Trump “some years ago” when he was a
businessman, but had not met him since. McCain said he did speak
“almost daily” to National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R.
McMaster and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, however.

“He
doesn’t seem to be that upset that he’s not talking to him,”
said German Marshall Fund’s Derek Chollet, a former Obama Pentagon
official. “He’s trying to run U.S. defense policy through Mattis
and effectively ignore Trump.”

That
said, McCain also said it was "too early" to pass judgment
on his presidency, although his series of critical comments in recent
weeks have demonstrated his growing skepticism about the Trump
administration.

Furthermore,
while McCain said he was "very pleased" by Trump's picks
for his national security team - despite suggesting that they were
being bypassed by more ideological and less competent people - he
took the opportunity to attack Trump's decisionmaking, saying "

the
question is: who does the president listen to, who drives the tweets
at 6 in morning?”, he
said.Asked whether he thought that "Russia owns a significant
part of the White House," he said: "I don't worry about
that."

The
unspoken suggestion: Russia.

What
worries McCain, he said, was "the Russian role in our
elections", even if he admitted that he has seen "no
evidence they succeeded” in affecting the outcome of last year's US
vote. Noting that Russia was now trying to influence elections in
France and in Germany, he said that if it succeeded it would be "a
death warrant for democracy".

"It's
an act of destruction that is certainly more lethal than dropping
some bombs," he insisted. McCain, a Russia hawk, said that Putin
wanted to restore the Russian empire: “He wants the Baltics, he has
taken Crimea, he's been in Ukraine."

"These
are KBG thugs, my friends," he said, referring to the former
Russian spy service for which Putin used to work. He added that the
US needed to "respond accordingly". He said however that
there was "nothing wrong" if Trump met Putin.

"I'm
not against meeting," he said, reminding the Brussels forum that
US presidents met Soviet leaders during the Cold War.

But
he added that "the best way to go to a meeting is with a strong
hand" and that was not the case for the US right now.

This
could be the beginning of the end for embattled Sen. John McCain’s
life in politics. According to White House officials, McCain is
believed to have somehow gained access to the content of President
Donald Trump’s private, classified telephone calls with world
leaders. And he isn’t keeping quiet about what was talked about
either.

An
analysis of McCain’s recent public statements by White House
officials, coupled with information from intelligence personnel
working with the Trump administration, paints a disturbing picture
for McCain — or any elected U.S. politician. Officials believe the
senator has inside knowledge of a number of President Trump’s
telephone conversations, including at least one conversation with
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Even
more alarming, officials believe McCain is secretly sharing this
sensitive information with colleagues and his cabal of friendly
mainstream media journalists in a dangerous clandestine campaign to
damage Trump’s presidency even before it has a chance to succeed.
Trump has been searching for media rats in the Beltway in recent
weeks. White House aides are confident they have now outed one of the
major leaks plaguing the early days of the Trump presidency. To
everyone’s surprise, it is a senior senator supposedly belonging to
the same side of the political aisle as the president.

McCain
has been lambasting Trump to anyone and everyone who will listen
since the newly minted president’s inauguration. This includes a
Russian comedian who pranked McCain posing as Ukraine Prime Minister
Volodymyr Groysman. Even during that troubling conversation, where
McCain shared sensitive U.S. intelligence with an imposter, White
House aides said McCain unknowingly exposed himself as having inside
knowledge of Trump’s telephone conversations.

“He
has been given transcripts or actually listened to the calls and is
sharing what he has heard,” an administration insider said. “There
is no doubt. He is one of the major leaks.”

Just
last week, True Pundit published a troubling
accountof
how a Russian comedian duped McCain, the Chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee. McCain incredibly even coached the
phone-prankster-posing Prime Minister on joining NATO.

This
audio recording of the phone call is absolutely incredible.

It’s
time for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to determine the level
McCain’s involvement and just how many laws he has broken.